Top 20 Dividend Stocks – March 2013

I have tweaked my technical screening to include Liability-to-Equity ratio in order to include the companies’ liabilities into the equation. I wanted to assess the strength of the companies by also including the liabilities – just looking at the other metrics wasn’t giving be both sides of the coins. It was interesting to learn about the liabilities and understanding what is acceptable for the different sectors. The energy sector appears to have their liabilities in good control.

Top 20 Dividend Stocks – Technical Screening

I will be updating my technical screening system and share a template with my readers. Below, is the updated value that I look at. You may find the range to be wider than necessary but it’s required to have more stocks in the screener to compare. I need to be able to see more stocks in order to compare as trends can come into play.

P/E : Target is 15

52 Week Range : The lower in the range the higher the score for an entry point

Yield : Normalized up to 6% (this one is manual)

Payout Ratio : Between 25% and 65%

Market Cap : Bonus multiplier with a target of $20B or more (+/- 10%). I normalize it between 0.9 and 1.1 and use that to multiply my previous total of the first 4 criteria.

Liability-to-Equity Ratio : Anything below 1.00 gets a full score and it goes down from there.

Top 20 Dividend Stocks – Dividend Yield

This section is mostly for entertainment as many of the yields are above norm usually highlighting a company might be in a position to reduce its dividend payment as Atlantic Power Corporation did recently. In other case, the yield is high but there is little room for stock appreciation and the only return investor get is from the yield.

Ticker

Company

Quote

P/E

EPS

Market Cap

Debt Ratio

Yield

Payout Ratio

Value Metric

AGF.B

* AGF Management

$11.35

39.43

$0.29

1.01

0.60

9.52%

372.41%

0.37

TA.TO

TransAlta

$14.93

–

-$2.73

3.86

1.83

7.77%

-42.49%

–

ERF.TO

Enerplus Corp

$14.95

–

-$0.78

2.97

0.77

7.22%

-138.46%

–

BA.TO

Bell Alliant

$26.46

17.9

$1.48

6.03

0.00

7.18%

128.38%

0.40

CPG.TO

Crescent Point Energy

$39.34

63.67

$0.62

14.91

0.40

7.02%

445.16%

0.42

AX.UN

Artis REIT

$15.96

5.16

$3.09

1.84

1.14

6.77%

34.95%

0.66

COS.TO

Canadian Oil Sand

$21.27

10.52

$2.02

10.31

1.25

6.58%

69.31%

0.46

PBH.TO

Premium Brands Holding Corp

$18

26.28

$0.68

0.38

1.99

6.44%

170.59%

0.27

CUF.UN

Cominar

$22.68

8.09

$2.8

2.82

1.08

6.35%

51.43%

0.70

KEG.UN

The Keg Royalty Income Fund

$15.29

66.22

$0.23

0.17

0.17

6.28%

417.39%

0.22

DH.TO

Davis + Henderson

$21.47

18.39

$1.17

1.27

0.84

5.96%

109.40%

0.49

EIF.TO

Exchange Income Fund

$28.47

22.94

$1.24

0.58

1.13

5.90%

135.48%

0.44

LIQ.TO

Liquor Store Income Fund

$18.54

19.95

$0.93

0.42

0.58

5.83%

116.13%

0.57

ENF.TO

* Enbridge Income Fund

$25.19

17.04

$1.48

1.30

0.03

5.36%

91.22%

0.50

RSI.TO

Rogers Sugar

$6.35

17.38

$0.37

0.60

1.08

5.35%

91.89%

0.49

CWT.UN

Calloway REIT

$29.29

4.18

$7.01

3.87

0.78

5.29%

22.10%

0.83

MBT.TO

Manitoba Telecom

$32.84

12.44

$2.64

2.21

2.38

5.18%

64.39%

0.66

REI.UN

RioCan

$27.25

5.97

$4.56

8.20

0.88

5.17%

30.92%

0.91

SLF.TO

Sun Life Financial

$27.97

12.29

$2.28

16.78

12.44

5.15%

63.16%

0.58

KMP

Kinder Morgan Energy

$88.15

53.56

$1.65

32.90

1.77

5.04%

269.09%

0.38

I maintain a list of my holdings in the Dividend Income section. It does not change very often since I am long with my investments and my dividend investing strategy.

Readers: Are you surprised by the list?

Disclaimer: Please note that this blog post represents my opinion and not an advice/recommendation. I am not a financial adviser, I am not qualified to give financial advice. Before you buy any stocks/funds consult with a qualified financial planner. Make your decision at your own risk – see my full disclaimer for more details.

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